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I am beyond excited to welcome Katherine Cross as our newest guest writer. I’ve been a fan of Katherine’s nerdy brilliance for a while. She’s had writing at Feministing before, but now she’ll be joining us on a more regular basis. Here’s some more info about her:

Katherine Cross is a pizza loving feminist sociologist, trans Latina, and amateur slug herder, working on her PhD at the CUNY Graduate Centre. When she’s not studying or gaming she can be found at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project. Her blog can be found at quinnae.com and her writing has also appeared in Women’s Studies Quarterly, Bitch Magazine, Questioning Transphobia, and Kotaku. She is a co-editor of the Border House.

Please join me and the whole blog crew in giving Katherine Cross a warm Feministing welcome. And look out for Katherine’s writing appearing on the blog super soon.

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Jos Truitt is Executive Director of Development at Feministing. She joined the team in July 2009, became an Editor in August 2011, and Executive Director in September 2013. She writes about a range of topics including transgender issues, abortion access, and media representation. Jos first got involved with organizing when she led a walk out against the Iraq war at her high school, the Boston Arts Academy. She was introduced to the reproductive justice movement while at Hampshire College, where she organized the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program’s annual reproductive justice conference. She has worked on the National Abortion Federation’s hotline, was a Field Organizer at Choice USA, and has volunteered as a Pro-Choice Clinic Escort. Jos has written for publications including The Guardian, Bilerico, RH Reality Check, Metro Weekly, and the Columbia Journalism Review. She has spoken and trained at numerous national conferences and college campuses about trans issues, reproductive justice, blogging, feminism, and grassroots organizing. Jos completed her MFA in Printmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute in Spring 2013. In her "spare time" she likes to bake and work on projects about mermaids.

Jos Truitt is an Executive Director of Feministing in charge of Development.

London-based Nigerian lyricist Aina More has a fire new video that you can look to to set all your summer squad goals. More says that “Girls Killing It” is a track “celebrating the achievements of women.”

From the moves to the “world changer” shirts they’re all wearing, I trust you’ll have this ode to girls killing it on repeat. Check out more from Aina More here!

London-based Nigerian lyricist Aina More has a fire new video that you can look to to set all your summer squad goals. More says that “Girls Killing It” is a track “celebrating the achievements of women.”

I’m excited to announce that the brilliant Reina Gattuso is officially joining us as a regular Feministing columnist. Like us, you’ve likely been impressed by her writing on the site so far — from her series on intimate partner violence in queer communities to her thoughtful reflectionson ethicalsex.

Reina is passionate about empowering conversations around queerness, sexual ethics, and institutional equity with equal parts rhapsody and snark. Her writing has appeared in the Harvard Crimson, the Harvard Advocate, and the Huffington Post. She will be spending 2015-2016 on a Fulbright-Nehru Research fellowship in Delhi and Lucknow, India.

Please join us in welcoming Reina to the Feministing crew, catch up on her

I’m excited to announce that the brilliant Reina Gattuso is officially joining us as a regular Feministing columnist. Like us, you’ve likely been impressed by her writing on the site so far — from her

To bear or not to bear children: that’s the question asked of us even when we’re not asking it of ourselves. Nearly all of the writers in the anthology Shallow, Selfish, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids (Picador) tell stories of being insistently, publicly, impudently asked to justify their choice not to reproduce. These writers express the imperative as feminists to demand an end to this question—and all of the attendant societal pressures and expectations that come with it.

Essayist and longstanding Los Angeles Times columnist Meghan Daum edited the collection “to lift the discussion out of the familiar rhetoric, which so often pits parents against non-parents and assumes the former are self-sacrificing and mature ...